That is what the NFL would like everyone to believe, however, revenue sharing is only part of a team's overall revenue, it helps somewhat but doesn't really make teams revenue equal. Big city teams often have twice the overall revenue of small market teams which is why teams like Cincy and Buffalo among others are consistently way under the cap. Their owners get blamed for being cheap but often there is more to it than that.
Sometimes a new stadium will help as in Arizona's case but for the most part only a great management team can overcome the revenue differences.

No. Stop it. Cinci is consistently ranked as one of the most profitable franchises in the NFL because of their lack of spending. Mike Brown has the money to spend, he just doesn't want to. The Bills usually spend close to the salary cap. I have no idea why you're lumping them in with Cinci.

The vast majority of NFL revenue comes from TV contracts, dude. That's all national contracts that are split evenly...not by ratings. Dallas' seat ticket sales don't put them at some kind of incredible financial advantage over Tampa or whoever, especially since they just ship some of that money away to the lower teams. This isn't the NBA where most money comes from individual teams' personal TV deals and ticket sales. The only real advantage a big team has is in luxury box sales and concessions...which really isn't a ********.

No. Stop it. Cinci is consistently ranked as one of the most profitable franchises in the NFL because of their lack of spending. Mike Brown has the money to spend, he just doesn't want to. The Bills usually spend close to the salary cap. I have no idea why you're lumping them in with Cinci.

The vast majority of NFL revenue comes from TV contracts, dude. That's all national contracts that are split evenly...not by ratings. Dallas' seat ticket sales don't put them at some kind of incredible financial advantage over Tampa or whoever, especially since they just ship some of that money away to the lower teams. This isn't the NBA where most money comes from individual teams' personal TV deals and ticket sales. The only real advantage a big team has is in luxury box sales and concessions...which really isn't a ********.

Exactly. The media and endorsement contracts are measured in the billions and that's where the sharing comes from each year. The new CBA did reduce the amount of money the teams actually shared from local deals but that figure maxed out at $100M and is now way down. That's peanuts on a per team basis compared to the TV & Sponsor money. $3M per team isn't what keeps Brown from spending any money.

Your number for the Ravens seems off. This site has Baltimore at $112,719,179 in cap commitments for the 2013 season (after adding in Flacco's deal) which would give them a bit more than $10 million in cap room.

Your number for the Ravens seems off. This site has Baltimore at $112,719,179 in cap commitments for the 2013 season (after adding in Flacco's deal) which would give them a bit more than $10 million in cap room.

How much can they carry over? With Flacco being almost a 26m cap hit in 2014 one suspects they'll need some wiggle room.

Your number for the Ravens seems off. This site has Baltimore at $112,719,179 in cap commitments for the 2013 season (after adding in Flacco's deal) which would give them a bit more than $10 million in cap room.

I looked into it. That site you linked doesn't account for last season's carryover and my original source was missing Billy Cundiff's dead money due to a typo in their code (they had the 1.8M hit coming in the year 20123), so it falls in the middle. Looks like a little over 13M available.

How much can they carry over? With Flacco being almost a 26m cap hit in 2014 one suspects they'll need some wiggle room.

Not quite.

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I was pretty close on Flacco's Cap numbers this AM. Based on @albertbreer 's tweets they are - $6.8M,$14.8M,$14.55M,$28.75M,$31.15M,$24.75M

As far as I know they can carry over as much cap room as they had left over from the previous year but I don't have any idea if there's any other rules regarding it.

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I looked into it. That site you linked doesn't account for last season's carryover and my original source was missing Billy Cundiff's dead money due to a typo in their code (they had the 1.8M hit coming in the year 20123), so it falls in the middle. Looks like a little over 13M available.

Yeah I just realized that after addressing the previous quote. They usually include it in their articles but that's just a current cap sheet so the carryover wouldn't be in there and I completely forgot about it.

Eh....he's now 5th overall in guaranteed money for a receiver. Bowe is pretty overrated, and certainly not close to top 5 in the league, but somebody else probably would have given it to him (Redskins gave Pierre Garcon 20 mil after all)

Eh....he's now 5th overall in guaranteed money for a receiver. Bowe is pretty overrated, and certainly not close to top 5 in the league, but somebody else probably would have given it to him (Redskins gave Pierre Garcon 20 mil after all)

I don't know how you can say Bowe is overrated when he has put up pretty consistent numbers with some horrible QB's pretty much his whole career in the NFL. He had a little bit of a drop problem when he first got to NFL, and that was fixed after eye surgery. He always seems to go hard for the ball and he is a very good player for YAC.

Bowe blows Wallce and Jennings out of the water IMO of the FA WR's this season.

I also have a soft spot for him with the horrible QB play - reminds me of one of my favorite Bills of all time - Eric Moulds.

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